United States Beethoven, Bates, Mozart, Liszt: Mason Bates (electronics), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra / Kensho Watanabe (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 8.4.2017. (BJ)
Philadelphia
A Requiem Pitting Christian Devotion Against Anti-War Disillusion
United States Britten, War Requiem: Tatiana Pavlovskaya (soprano), Steve Davislim (tenor), Matthias Goerne (baritone), Westminster Symphonic Choir (Joe Miller, director), American Boychoir (Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, director), Philadelphia Orchestra / Charles Dutoit (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 25.3.2017. (BJ)
Sub-Standard Eroica Follows Berg Concerto Illuminated Only by Sublime Kavakos
United States Crawford, Berg, Beethoven: Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 11.3.2017. (BJ)
In an Imperfect World, Mozart Close to Perfection
United States Mozart, Brahms: Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra / Herbert Blomstedt (conductor), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 18.2.2017 (BJ)
Two Singers Compensate Brilliantly for a Dramatically Flawed Tancredi
United States Rossini, Tancredi: Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra of Opera Philadelphia / Corrado Rovaris (conductor), Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 19.2.2017. (BJ)
Departure and Discovery from Jonathan Biss
United States Bach, Kurtág, Britten, Beethoven: Brentano Quartet, Jonathan Biss (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 16.2.2017. (BJ)
Peter Stumpf’s Bach: Warmly Communicative and Technically Close to Impeccable
United States Bach: Peter Stumpf (cello), Benjamin Franklin Hall, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 12.2.2017. (BJ)
Charisma and Eloquence from a Young Conductor and an Oboe Master
United States anon., Bernstein, Barber, Françaix, Strauss, Ravel: Richard Woodhams (oboe), Curtis Symphony Orchestra / Miguel Harth-Bedoya & Carlos Ágreda (conductors), Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 5.2.2017. (BJ)